LDS researchers are probably no better or no worse
than any random sampling of genealogical researchers.
I am one of them. My calling in the Church for 35
years has been with Family History. I have tried to
instill good research practices in my pupils. I have
probably broken more hears than I can count because I
was breaking fabulous royal descents from their
stemmas and telling them they needed to do more
research on a line they were going to submit, even
though it might have met the bare minimum of standards
for submission. Many members are also continuing work
that was done years ago before the Information Age. I,
and others, continue to encourage them to double-check
and correct this work.
Non-members also make submissions, even to the IGI.
Pedigree Resource File has replaced Ancestral File,
but the mistakes are still being generated. Part of
this is due to on-line genealogy.
On one list I have shown, thanks to an English
researcher, the proper ancestry for Simon Hoyt. And
everytime, I get scathing posts telling me what do I
know. I didn't get my AG by being lazy, anything less
than terminally thorough, being ignorant, or
displaying a lack of academic integrity. I try to
instill these qualities in my students. I also have
the advantage of holding a very big stick, guilt. I
ask them if they wish to present work to Heavenly
Father which is shoddy and less than perfect;
perfection being based on record availability. It
usually is a good motivator to encourage them to
better work and gain more experience.
I hope that this will not become an excuse to attack
me and my LDS faith. I am just trying to express my
perspective. Second amendment and all that, ioncluding
common courtesy.
Kay Allen AG
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lostcoo...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Nov 11, 12:46 pm, Kay Allen <all...@pacbell.net
wrote:
That can be said of virtually any genealogical
software. A good product is also based on the
skill,
knowledge, and integrity of the individual
researcher.
Kay Allen AG
(As for "produced using the Mormon Family Search
PAF
software" -
that's no guarantee of quality of genealogical
work.
Using Family
Search and PAF software, you could invent an
entire
pedigree, and it
would *still* be invented.)
P J Evans
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It is a bit of a stretch to refer to the LDS
pedigree donors as
researchers in many instances. What you find on
Family Search is more
often garbled than not. There is a pedgiree for my
grandfather, for
example, that is entirely and completely wrong but
very detailed all
the same. And there is no way to contribute new data
with resource
information that corrects previous mistakes. At
best it can be used
only to suggest new avenues of research that may or
may not pan out.
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